Even two weeks after he was revealed to be Deep Throat, W. Mark Felt‘s “role as the most famous anonymous source in US history was even more complex and intrigue-loaded than the newly revised public account suggests,” says a startling report in The Nation by David Corn and Jeff Goldberg. “According to originally confidential FBI documents—some written by Felt—that were obtained by The Nation from the FBI’s archives, Felt played another heretofore unknown part in the Watergate tale: He was, at heated moments during the scandal, in charge of finding the source of Woodward and Bernstein‘s Watergate scoops. In a twist worthy of le Carré, Deep Throat was assigned the mission of unearthing—and stopping—Deep Throat.”